I am an EECS PhD student at MIT, advised by Erik Demaine in CSAIL and Zach Lieberman at the Media Lab. My work has been generously supported by the MIT MAD Design Fellowship, the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, and the MIT Stata Family Presidential Fellowship.

I develop mathematical abstractions and computational tools to enable new ways of designing and fabricating. At the moment, I'm particularly intruiged by the possible interplays between computation and craft, especially in creating expressive, personalized, and responsive fashion.

My time is devoted in equal parts to research, art, and teaching.

Portrait
Photo by my wonderful sister Esther in Busan, South Korea (2025)

News

  • 10/2025
    I'll be exhibiting a collection of 2D and 3D 'constellation' artworks at the Wiesner Gallery in December. Please come visit! The opening reception is planned for December 10th from 6PM to 8PM.
  • 10/2025
    I am attending SCF 2025 hosted here at MIT with a poster and demo of Refashion. Please say hello—I'd love to chat!
  • 10/2025
    Wow, I met and presented to Diane von Fürstenberg, Stuart Weitzman, and Tony Fadell this month thanks to MAD—feeling so incredibly grateful!
  • 07/2025 🇰🇷
    Refashion, my first HCI paper, will be presented and demoed at UIST 2025 in Busan, South Korea!
  • 07/2025
    My art piece all these things i want to tell you, and yet i can't find the words will be on display at MathFest 2025.
  • 04/2025
    I am incredibly grateful to be named a 2025 MAD Design Fellow!
  • 03/2025 🇳🇱
    Spiraling is on display at public art exhibition Intersections (featured on KING5 Evening) and to be presented at Bridges 2025 in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
  • 01/2025
    Disintegrating received an honorable mention at the JMM 2025 Art Exhibition, was featured in the New York Times, and selected for the American Mathematical Society's 2026 calendar!
  • 08/2024
    Absolutely delighted to be part of Future Sketches at the Media Lab starting this fall!
  • 07/2024 🇩🇰
    Demoing a proof of concept, Routing Reconfigurations, at SCF 2024 in Aarhus, Denmark.
  • 05/2024
    Thrilled to be interning at Adobe Research in San Francisco with Mackenzie Leake!
  • 01/2024
    Presenting my paper Graph Threading at ITCS 2024 in Berkeley, CA.
  • 06/2023 🇯🇵
    At the University of Tokyo this summer visiting the Origami Lab, led by Tomohiro Tachi.
  • 04/2022
    I'm starting my PhD at MIT this fall! Grateful to my undergraduate advisors Will Evans, Craig Kaplan, Alla Sheffer et al. for fostering my curiosity and creativity, and for their advocacy.

Research Highlights

My research—often taking the form of varied thought experiments—centers on synthesizing ideas across domains in designing new ways of thinking and making. As such, my work spans human–computer interaction, computer graphics and vision, theoretical computer science, and art. While I publish in academic venues, I’m equally drawn to alternative outcomes of research. I've found the right homes for my ideas through artworks, creative tools, and educational resources.

Human-Computer Interaction Computational Design

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design UIST 2025

How can we design garments for change and reuse? By reimagining garments as dynamic assemblies rather than static products, Refashion enables users to resize, restyle, and remix their garments on demand.

String to Structure project teaser
Algorithms & Theory Fabrication

Graph Threading ITCS 2024

How can we thread tubes with single string to achieve the desired structure when pulling the string taut? By viewing the problem from a graph-theoretical lens, we present efficient algorithms for computing minimum-length threadings.

Constellation Patterns project teaser
Mathematical Art Computational Design

Encoding-Decoding Constellation Patterns

How can we create constellations with unconventional star arrangements? We propose a method that automatically generates constellations from graph-based descriptions, using circle packings as scaffolding.

I consider mathematics and computation as artistic media—they provide alternative vocabularies for making. Many of the artworks shown in my gallery have served as both inspiration and vehicles for developing and sharing these ideas.

Exhibitions

Teaching

Photography